WILLIAM HANNAM  LO383

Official No:  143940   Port and Year: London, 1920 (LO250)                                                               Aberdeen, 1939 (A54)

Description: Castle Class steel side trawler; single screw, coal burning. Ketch rigged.

Crew:

Built: 1919,  J. Duthie Torry Shipbuilding Co., Aberdeen.  (Yard no. 448)

Tonnage:  276 grt  119 net.

Length / breadth / depth (feet): 125.6 / 23.6 / 12.7

Engine: T 3-Cyl. 87 rhp; by Fawcett, Preston & Co., Liverpool. 1952: Oil burning 4 SA 6 Cyl; by Maschinen Fabrik, Augsburg.

Owners:   1920: Pater Steam Trawling Co., Pembroke Dock Manager: T. Jenkerson   As A54 18 Aug 1939: J. Craig & Others, Aberdeen   1942: James Craig, Aberdeen   1942: Dinas Steam Trawling Co., Fleetwood Manager; David Marr.   Nov 1943: The Admiralty.   Renamed FIRMAN 1948: S. Risanger, Haugesund, Norway

Landed at Milford: 10 Sep 1920 - 26 Jul 1939

Skippers: William Francis Reynolds (1926)

Notes: 20 Feb 1919: Completed for the Admiralty (no.4206) as WILLIAM HANNAM.  6 Jul 1920: Registered by the Admiralty as a fishing vessel at London, and auctioned at Milford. Oct 1939: Requisitioned by the Admiralty and converted to a boom defence vessel (P.No. Z.129). Nov 1943: Based at Portsmouth 9 Apr 1957: Foundered off Kiberg, north coast of Norway.. [Information supplied by the Fleetwood Maritime Heritage Trust and the Bosun's Watch website.]

 

 

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